I was volunteering at an Operation Christmas Child warehouse in Denver this past weekend, unpacking shoeboxes from cartons, pulling out checks from boxes, sorting through boxes for inappropriate items, taping boxes, re-cartonizing boxes, scanning labels, and taping cartons up, saying goodbye to them as they slid down rollers to fork lifts. As I was observing others around me, I was made aware of several things.
1. We were all working together as the body of Christ. The head of each "team" was making sure that everyone felt they were using the gifts God had given them in processing these gifts for children in the Philippines. If we had all run around doing every job as one person, it would have been utter chaos and confusion. But instead, it was a motivated, organized, steady moving process.
2. We were SERVING. What's so unique about that? People serve others in various ways every day. It gives the servers a purpose, a point. It gives the served joy and thanks. But without the need for service, where would we be? If we still lived in the perfect world that Adam and Eve lived in, there would be no need for service, and no serving. What a lovely thing it would be to see no suffering, no need for service, no pain. But what a blessing it is to serve those in need! In the midst of the brokenness and the hurting, God created a lovely opportunity for us to begin the process of healing as we serve and are served. How important it is to be His hands and feet! We are becoming more and more like him as we help and are helped. A glorious cause for the glory of The King.
"For God is not unjust so as to look over your work and the love that you have shown for His Name in serving the Saints, as you still do." ~Hebrews 6:10
"For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve..."~Mark 10:45
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